Darren New wrote:

> Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>> Nope - it burned down in total.
> 
> I've read that some scraps of scrolls were eventually found and saved,
> including things like the formulae for the orbits of planets, etc,
> leading to the conclusion that science was fairly well advanced. If only
> they'd discovered movable type. :-)

Hehe! Yeah, that was about 2000 years before MS-Word. Imagine what happened
when they made a "typo" (or did they call it a "carve-o" or "adze-o"?)

"Hey Christopoulous! You idiot! I told you it was gamma not theta here!"

*crash* as a tablet that took two days to carve is smashed on the floor.

:)

I am not strong on the particular history of the library, but Carl Sagan
seemed to lament it in his book at the hit science took when it was
destroyed.

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions

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